So YouTube Music (the service) goes live along with YouTube Premium next week. Seeing as it looks like Google will be eventually deprecating Google Play Music in favour of the YouTube equivalent, will the YouTube Music streaming data be zero rated the same way Play Music currently is for accounts with data free music streaming enabled?

The premium subscription charge for YouTube Premium is slightly higher than a Premium Google music subscription and includes allCurrent content available on YouTube Premium.

The great new for existing google music subscribers is that they won't see a change to the way that they're charged. They’ll also receive access to YouTube Premium as they'd already had an active YouTube Red account.

It'll be interesting to see whether they can convince customers of other popular streaming services like Netflix to give it a shot. The free access to Google play is a great incentive to switch.